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q3sniper | 11 years ago | on: KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators

Ha! Preemptive multitasking and a rotating cube as a demo. Nice work. Would love to see this ported to something else constrained like the Pebble Watch.

q3sniper | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why people continue working in video game industry?

Because of the thrill of it.

My day-to-day is devops with a little frontend. It's drugery. I got into programming because I wanted to do games programming. That's where I started. It was thrilling, doing demos, entering competitions, pushing pixels. Fucking thrilling. But then I needed to get a job. Nobody needs a games/graphics programmer. So, I read a couple of database books, and now life sucks.

I'd love to go back to where the rubber hit the road.

q3sniper | 11 years ago | on: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

Wow this is great.

I have always wanted to create a window manager ever since I read "The X Window System: Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif" years ago but unfortunately never got around to it and never had the motivation to look back. This makes it easy. Thanks!

Edit: If you're going to downvote, explain why.